Speed today confirmed that Volvo will enter a 4-car (!) factory effort in the Speed GT series this year. The brace of S60 Rs will be headed up by Derek Bell. It's not the turbo wagons of the old British Touring Car Days, but it's still a Volvo on a race track!
On a related note, is US sportscar racing about the turn the corner, so to speak? Usual discussions of road racing in the US are bitch fests about one thing or the other. But the Speed GT series has had several big announcements recently, the GrandAm Rolex series has a growing number of competitors for its top-tier Daytona Prototype class (even given their sluggish bad looks), and even the American LeMans Series - which was looking a little rough a month ago as we wait for the new rules package to kick it - is looking pretty good. With the economy (supposedly) on the rebound, are the good days truly ahead of us?
Thursday, January 15, 2004
The Swedish are Coming!
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